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Simpsons Again Jabs Fox News–This Time for Christmas Coverage
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The Fox show “The Simpsons” seems intent on starting a wary with sister network Fox News Channel. In the last month, the adult cartoon has mocked the news outlet three times, first calling its viewers “racists” and then saying its coverage is “unsuitable for viewers under 75.” Now the show is mocking Christmas coverage on the network, which regularly airs stories on the the word “Christmas” being scrubbed from parades and governments across the country, with a sarcastic message on the now-infamous cartoon helicopter: “Merry Christmas from Fox News…But No Other Holidays.”
The jab occurred in the show’s opening on Sunday evening:
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daylee
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:40amI have yet to understand why any right thinking person would subject their minds to such mindless crap.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:37amThis entire Christmas thing is a farce anyway since they’re all worshipping the same thing…
Satan.
Jesus Christ is LUCIFER.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:56amAssertion does not make fact. Can you explain what you mean please?
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 1:25pmSure I can.
In the King James Bible, Jesus refers to himself as the Bright Morning Star.
Lucifer is described as the morning star.
The Antichrist is said to appear as a man of peace, but will come to bring war.
Jesus says he comes not with peace, but with a sword.
When Jesus died, he went directly to hell first.
Jesus is said to have the keys to heaven and hell.
None of the commandments says that you must go through Jesus as a proxy to enter Heaven.
Men, especially rabbis, aren’t supposed to have long hair like a woman or be effeminate.
Lucifer is described as falling from heaven like lightning.
Jesus says that he will come as a theif in the night, and like a bolt of lightning.
Jesus was a man. God is a god.
Satan has been running this entire show since the beginning of Genesis chapter 2.
God is referred to as God.
Satan (or Baal) is referred to a “LORD God.”
God created everything in 6 days and rested on the 7th day.
We are still in the 7th day of God, specifically the evening.
The day has not yet dawned, that’s why outerspace is dark.
Jesus Christ is the essence of collective salvation.
He is Lucifer, and he wishes to redeem himself by saving man.
You see, his salvation is based on our collective salvation.
Report Post »stage9
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 5:23pmNice try, sinista mace, but thinking people know better.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 8:36pmOh, you‘re a ’thinking person’?
Or are you another brainwashed sheep tricked into worshipping Lucifer?
Report Post »Liberals are Disgusting
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:36amRead this article
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Defiant
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:36amThere is no “Simpsons” past Season 10.
Report Post »Liberals are Disgusting
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:36amWhat You May Not Know About Christmas
December 25, 2009 | From theTrumpet.com
Many professing Christians are indignantly insisting that people stop de-Christifying the celebration of Christmas in the name of political correctness. Are they even aware of this holiday’s decidedly non-Christian origins? By Mark Jenkins and Carl Hilliker
The traditions surrounding Christmas stir warm feelings in the hearts of many—young and old alike—all over the Earth. Families come together. Shoppers go into a frenzy. Children await the day they’ll receive their presents. There is no other time quite like it.
The attachment people feel to these days isn’t surprising. After all, these traditions have been going on for hundreds of generations. Consider the following description in the Bible: “[F]or one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not” (Jeremiah 10:3-4). That description, clearly describing a Christmas tree, was recorded in the book of Jeremiah hundreds of years before the birth of Christ.
But consider the opening of verse 3: “For the customs of the people are vain.” Vain? This couldn’t be talking about Christmas, could it?
What does God think of Christmas? Rest assured, He is very interested in this holiday and its yearly celebration.
Most people simply follow the customs of their family, region or nation without knowing where those customs originated or why they are kept. Most never ask about the origins of Christmas, why people exchange presents on this day, or even whether this holiday really represents the birth of Jesus Christ, after whom it is named.
Does the Almighty God command its observance? If not, does He forbid that we partake in it?
Let us obtain the true facts about Christmas.
The date of December 25 is widely associated with the birth of Jesus Christ. But is this really the correct date of His birth?
When Jesus Christ was born, “there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8). December is in the midst of a cold, rainy season in Judaea. The shepherds always brought their flocks in from the fields and mountains to be corralled by mid-October at the latest, for their protection. Song of Solomon 2:11 and Ezra 10:9 and 13 show that winter was a rainy season, thus confirming that the shepherds would not have been in open fields on December 25.
Why then would Christ’s birth be celebrated on this day? The Encyclopedia Britannica states, “The reason why Christmas came to be celebrated on December 25 remains uncertain, but most probably the reason is that early Christians wished the date to coincide with the pagan Roman festival marking the ‘birthday of the unconquered sun.’”
In addition, the Catholic Encyclopedia makes many startling admissions. Here are just a few:
“Christmas was not among the earliest festivals of the church ….” That’s right—Christmas was not instituted by Jesus Christ, nor was it observed by any of the apostles personally instructed by Christ.
In fact, we are told that “The word for Christmas in late Old English is Cristes Maesse, the Mass of Christ, first found in 1038.” That is 1,000 years after the death of Christ.
“The first evidence of the feast is from Egypt” (not Jerusalem). About a.d. 200 Egyptian theologians began celebrating the birth of Christ on the 25th of Pachon, which corresponds to May 20 on our calendar.
The truth is, the early Christians did not observe birthdays—not even Christ’s birth. The Christian theologian Origen (a.d. 185-232) asserts, “[I]n the Scriptures sinners alone, not saints, celebrate their birthday.”
As you can see, secular and Catholic history shows that, originally, Christmas was definitely not about celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. In order to find the true origins of Christmas and the traditions surrounding it, we must look back even further to another historical source: the one true source of living knowledge—the Holy Bible.
Jesus Christ was not born on December 25. But this date is not without origin. It can be traced back to Genesis and a man named Nimrod.
Nimrod, grandson of Ham and son of Cush, was the founder of a great false religious system that has always opposed the truths of God. Genesis 10:8 says that Nimrod “began to be a mighty one [or tyrant] in the earth.” He set out to conquer and exploit other people by forming the first “kingdom” on Earth at Babylon in Shinar (verse 10). Nimrod also built the infamous tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9).
Nimrod rebelled before God in everything he did, but especially in the establishment of a great false religion. Nimrod not only wanted to lead his people, he wanted to be worshiped by them. It is said that he married his own mother, Semiramis. She became known as the “queen of heaven” and Nimrod as the “divine son of heaven.” He claimed to be the “savior” of all mankind and came to be worshiped as their messiah—their great deliverer. The problem was, he was attempting to save man from God, not from their sins! Nimrod was an outspoken rebel against all that God stood for, and, the Jewish historian Josephus reported, he taught the multitudes that it was “cowardice to submit to God.”
While Nimrod was alive he put himself in the place of God, and when he died Semiramis saw to it that he was still worshiped as a divine hero and given the name Baal, which means master, or lord. That is the name of the false god found throughout much of the Old Testament.
Shortly after Nimrod’s untimely death, Semiramis gave birth to an illegitimate child, which she claimed was begotten by a “spirit” as a rebirth of Nimrod. This “mother and child” soon became the chief objects of worship throughout the world. There are many versions of this story, one for each nation and tongue as they were scattered from Babel by God, but whether they worshiped the mother and child under the Egyptian names of Isis and Horus, or the Roman names of Venus and Jupiter, or under the eventual Christian names of the “Virgin Mary” and the “Christ child,” it was the same old Babylonian religion. Even in China, Japan and Tibet, the counterpart of the Madonna and child were worshiped long before the birth of Christ. Every Christmas season you will hear many hymns such as “Silent Night” having this age-old mother-and-child theme, though there is no biblical admonition to worship Mary, Jesus’s mother.
Semiramis also claimed that a full-grown evergreen tree sprang up overnight from a dead stump, symbolizing the new life of Nimrod. She claimed that Nimrod would visit the evergreen tree and leave gifts on each anniversary of his birth, which happens to be on December 25. This is the true origin of the Christmas tree, and the history behind the gifts people place there to this day. This is why the Prophet Jeremiah knew of the “Christmas tree” so long before Jesus Christ was ever born.
Again we witness the remnants of a custom established centuries before the birth of Christ, yet promoted into Christianity with no scriptural instruction to do so.
During the time of the Roman Empire, for hundreds of years prior to “Christianity” coming into the mainstream of Western culture, pagan festivals were celebrated. “In the Roman world the Saturnalia (December 17-23) was a time of merrymaking and exchange of gifts. December 25 was also regarded as the birth date of the Iranian mystery god Mithra, the Sun of Righteousness. On the Roman New Year (January 1), houses were decorated with greenery and lights, and gifts were given to children and the poor. To these observances were added the German and Celtic Yule rites when the Teutonic tribes penetrated into Gaul, Britain and central Europe. Food and good fellowship, the Yule log and Yule cakes, greenery and fir trees, and gifts and greetings all commemorated different aspects of this festive season” (Encyclopedia Britannica).
Is it coincidence that these customs are so closely associated with Christmas to this day?
We need to understand that every one of the pagan customs that now pollutes mainstream Christianity began out of deliberate rebellion against the Creator God, the same Being who came to this Earth to educate us with the truth and save us out of our deception and our sin.
Christmas is a pagan festival. That is absolute fact. Research any Christmas custom and you can quickly discover the pagan origin. Some people take offense when these things are pointed out, but God commands His faithful Church to proclaim such things (Isaiah 58:1).
Yet those Christians who know these pagan origins are quick to respond, “But we do not worship any pagan sun-god today! We are simply honoring the birth of Jesus Christ.”
How does God answer such reasoning? Aside from the fact that God does not command Christmas, aside from the fact that Christ wasn’t born on December 25 and that its customs are steeped in paganism, does it matter if we keep Christmas for the “right” reasons? “Take heed that you be not ensnared to follow them [the pagans and their customs] and that you do not inquire about their gods, saying, ‘How did these nations serve their gods?—that I also may do likewise.’ You shall not do so to the Lord your God; for every abominable thing which the Lord hates they have done for their gods” (Deuteronomy 12:30-31, Revised Standard Version).
Popular opinion should not prevent individuals who know the truth from turning away from a festival season steeped in paganism. Jesus said that, in order to be His disciples, there would be times when we would need to forsake the desires of our family and friends and follow Him (Luke 14:26-27).
God does give us a command to memorialize Jesus Christ: He commands us to observe the day of Christ’s death (1 Corinthians 11:24-27)—not His birth. God also commands that we keep other holy days, a listing of which can be found in Leviticus 23. If you want more information, we suggest reading online or requesting a free copy of our booklet Pagan Holidays—or God’s Holy Days—Which? •
Report Post »White Devil
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:46amDon’t write books on the comment board. Most don’t read them and it takes up room.
Report Post »Liberals are Disgusting
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:34amto be honest christmas as a holiday is pagan. look it up
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:55amTo be honest, even if it is (and it does have roots in pre-Christian European pagan culture, for certain), it symbolizes goodwill, peace and happiness. It is the very antithesis of many non-Christian religious holidays, which stress sacrifice, ritual and suffering. Why shouldn’t a culture want to set aside time to actually celebrate the things that make people Good?
Report Post »Greyhound424
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:03pmThe pagans celebrate the winter solstice which is a pagan holiday. Christians decided to celebrate the birth of Christ at the same time to bring something good and holy to this time of year. Christmas itself is not pagan. There is nothing wrong with celebrating the birth of our lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Glory be to GOD, peace on earth and good will to all men. Amen.
Report Post »Meredith Jessup
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:29amThat was actually a pretty lame jab if you ask me
Report Post »milo
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:27amRatings will go right up to MSNBC…
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confederacyofdunces
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:24amNow I’m a former viewer
Report Post »WILLIAM E.
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:18amPeople I know who watch this show are pot heads. I fail to see the education in this.
Report Post »crossdraw
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:13amNational Security Threat is watching the Simpsons
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:11amMy wife still has me DVR the Simpsons. I don’t know why. She’s so busy watching 20 years of back Law & Order episodes that I don’t think she ever watches them.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:13pmMaybe the DVR could have a slightly conveinent power surge or something that accidently deletes the entire recorded episodes of the Simpsons. Just a thought.
Report Post »angelcat
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:10amThe Simpson’s writers must be soooo jealous of Fox News, but it is nice of them to give them so much free publicity, though they don’t really need it. Eat your heart out, SimpsonsF!
Report Post »aggiehomer
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:10amI stopped watching this show in the early 1990′s. Does anyone still watch it?
Report Post »Dilbert is Real
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:06amI’ve seen more of this show on this website than I have on my TV.
Report Post »SueC
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:06amNever truly saw the fascination with the show. I didn’t like it from the first. One reason being the contempt they treated parents with.
Report Post »nsblues
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:04pmthat is a complete myth. If you had bothered to watch a single episode you would have seen that while the kids may misbehave toward their parents at times, they also deeply respect and love them. That happened from the very first episode. Judging and spreading lies about what you have never bothered to watch is what liberals do and we are better than that.
Report Post »rbqueen
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:05amIt’s the “simpsons” or an America hating tv writer. What else can we expect.
Report Post »Alvin691
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:04amSeriously, jump the shark. I didn’t know they were still on.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:03amWelcome to the world of Blaze/Enquirer partnership. Next up… Barry’s twin found.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:06amIs that what Michelle is keeping in her back pockets? I wondered what was in there.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:01amSad to see that they can’t help themselves.
Silversmith
Report Post »Diamondback
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:59amI used to watch this show. Emphasis on “used to.”
Report Post »Bauervision
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:23amas soon as I put down the hash pipe I seemed to lose interest in the show…… I’m sure there is some connection there….
Report Post »bbquizzle
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:03pmBauer did you stop voting Democratic too?
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:59ama moron show, for morons. even their cartoons have to vilify patriotic Americans.
Report Post »ChiefGeorge
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 5:53pmAgreed!
Report Post »Chillamundo
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:58amDooh
Report Post »mgibs363
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:56amWho cares? That show stopped being funny a loooooooong time ago.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:23amYup… now this BS they are pulling will (I believe) work in our favor. Keep it up you morons….You’re actually helping our cause.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:34amActually, this show was NEVER funny. Twisted and depressing, yes, but never “funny”.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:11pmThe only show, aside from C-Span, that rates lower than the Simpsons and single celled bacteria is that show South Park, which is absolutely horrendous in all areas and themes. If people like to watch it then good to them; they still have the freedom of choice for now, until net neutrality and the fairness doctrine slam home once again.
Report Post »Cliff
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 6:49pmWhen was it ever funny?
http://www.mentorlynx.com
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:56amAsk me how much I don’t care.
Report Post »Bauervision
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:21amhow much don’t you care?
Report Post »americanidiot
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:35amyea, i thought that they were all re-runs now. Talk about the need to sensor people and the misuse of media outlets. Thats just another hypocritical issue that the left wing liberals can’t see where they stand.
Report Post »daylee
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:38amI can proudly declare in all the years this this garbage has been on TV, I’ve never lowered myself to watch a single episode. I think more of myself and my family to subject our minds to such mindless drivel.
snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:47amAgreed kate, why should any of us even care? We already know the administration has it in big time for the Fox News station and its allies.
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akelso
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:48amBig Simpsons fan here. Don’t be thrown by a couple of jokes…FOX includes humor in all subject. Don’t be so sensitive. If you can’t handle the joke, and that’s all it is…because all of you knows what FOX is, as in balance and fair. But they aren’t afraid to pick on themselves every so often. In fact, no OTHER station has ever done that, until FOX had done, now Leno, but very little else. Any comedian that knows you have to be able to laugh at yourself first. And they were rated the #1 cartoon family show, because no matter how goofy Homer can be, his son knows he can’t go out and kill his friends at school, and the story always wraps up in in a neat little package at the end that does stress morals. They may pick from time to time, but try watching SouthPark and see if you don’t get offended.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:03pmYeah, the adults that watch this show are the same ones that couldn’t name the secretary of defense. NO STORY, NOTHING TO SEE HERE
Report Post »nsblues
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:10pmSeriously Blaze, this is such a complete waste of time. This is where Glenn Beck says “Do your own homework” well do your own homework. I finally got around to watching the episode with the helicopter that says “#1 with racists“ and then crashes as they say ”It’s not fair, we’re not balanced.” Well guess what the very next scene is. Its all the TV Networks conspiring to create their new “big story” and involves them creating a fake pig-flu like epidemic. In the process nearly every single other news network gets ripped on and NBC is shown to be the total buffoon of the whole process.
These are jokes, not a war. Simpsons has always picked on Fox, Married With Children, their other flagship show picked on Fox. Please stop making this to be something bigger than it is.
Report Post »nsblues
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:17pmC.C.D- leave the ignorance for the liberals. We are better than that. I have a college degree, working on my masters and I’ve been watching the show since I was a kid. Call me what you want, but I am not stupid.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:50pmTHINKING there should be some WRITERS losing their jobs>>> Actually I thought the Simpsons were off the air.. like the FLINTSTONES..
Report Post »IntheKnowOG
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 1:54pmDesperate attempt to get better ratings. I loved the show when I was a kid Barts age. Not so much now.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:10pm@DAYLEE
“I can proudly declare in all the years this this garbage has been on TV, I’ve never lowered myself to watch a single episode. I think more of myself and my family to subject our minds to such mindless drivel.”
Then you are an uncultured savage. The Simpsons is the longest running animation show (possibly the longest period, I’m not sure) in American history. Your opinion notwithstanding, they’re obviously doing something right, and to intentionally go out of your way, nay express pride, of your ignorance of a shared cultural institution is saddening.
Report Post »better_red_than_dead
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 5:29pmYou were the first to post a comment, so I guess you do care after all, huh?
Report Post »JesusFreak95
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 7:10amFolks:
Your all too serious. It’s the SIMPSONS. It’s supposed to be funny, ironic, irreverent. They love to tweak you like Rush loves tweaking the media. When you respond, they “win”. They are laughing their behinds off. It’s sad that Fox News would even standout in this regard.
Don’t let them rain on your parade, their are more important things to worry about then Bart and Homer.
Report Post »bonhans1
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 8:46amI just STARTED to watch the Simpson’s, and it was fun for a while. Kind of like when Pete Johnson Jr appears on Fox and Friends, when he comes goes on, the sound goes off. So far have not turned off Fox and Friends, unlike the Simpson’s, but it is tempting.
Report Post »Soldier4Christ
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 1:56pmWe need to start the CHRISTIAN ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE. Jewish people have one and now no one on TV ever dairs to utter words against the religion. If we are able to smack everyone who makes a disrespectful comment against Christianity with a law suit, they will think twice and eventually stop.
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